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The New Zealand Dollar rate collapsed at the Forex currency market on Monday, as higher yielding currencies are still under close attention of sellers. 

Forex forecast: MACD indicator is in the positive area for the pair NZD/USD, and goes down, giving a sell signal, however volumes are below average. Stochastic Oscillator started to decline fast in the neutral zone, giving a similar signal.

Forex recommendations: in case of breakdown at the level of 0.8000, the pair will go to 0.7980 and 0.7965.

It became known today that trade balance in New Zealand was at the level of NZD$605 billion in May against the forecast of NZD$1000 billion. This is a negative data, because decline in the trade balance will indicate decline in the level of exports later, which will be the impact of cooling Chinese economy.

Earlier, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand decided to keep interest rate unchanged at the minimum of 2.50% per annum, since it is going to continue its work on improvement in economic system. According to the head of the RBNZ, NZD has been overvalued because of high export prices for raw materials, therefore, national currency rate, which has increased over the last two months, has adverse impact on the rebalancing of the economy in New Zealand.

Bollard expressed confidence that decline of the NZD will be gradual because currency intervention will not be able to change the trend. The data of last week showed that current account balance amounted to -NZD$0.097 billion in Q1 against the forecast of -NZD$0.900 billion. Note that ratio of the deficit to GDP totaled to -4.3% in Q1 this year against the forecast of -4.4% and the level of -2.3% in Q4 last year.

Index of trading conditions in Q1 increased to a 37 - year highs in Q1, demonstrating the growth of 0.9% on quarterly basis (+6.8% y/y), which could be one of the signs of economic recovery in New Zealand, as it reflects changes in prices for exports and imports.Consumer confidence index Westpac in New Zealand increased to 112.0 points in Q2 against the level of 97.7 points in Q1.

Consumer confidence ANZ increased to 112.5 points in June against the preliminary level of 103.3 points. In addition, volume of retail sales in New Zealand rose for the first time in the last three quarters in Q1, which is a  good sign of the economic recovery. Thus, indicator increased by 0.9% q/q which agreed with the forecast, excluding inflation. 

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